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  • James Bland is listed as appearing with Miss Povey in the very successful run of Gil Blas at the English Opera House in August 1822, during a season when Mr. Rowbotham (see DeLacey, below) was also in the cast.

    Cast and Characters 2008

  • Bland is one notch above indifference, yet I still felt disappointment.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007

  • Bland is the first word that comes to mind, and it describes everything from the plot to the characters to the intricate and surprisingly dull details of just how magic works in this particular sword-and-sorcery world.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • Bland is the first word that comes to mind, and it describes everything from the plot to the characters to the intricate and surprisingly dull details of just how magic works in this particular sword-and-sorcery world.

    Book Review: Three Hands for Scorpio 2007

  • Ten With A Flag by Joseph Paul Haines illustrated by Martin Bland

    SciFi UK Review | Archive | March 2006

  • Ten With A Flag by Joseph Paul Haines illustrated by Martin Bland

    Interzone 203 | SciFi UK Review 2006

  • When the controversy arose, in 1878, on the Bland bill, and the House of Representatives proposed the free coinage of silver, the Senate rejected it after a deliberate contest, and substituted in place of it what is called the Bland-Allison act, which required the purchase, by the government, of silver bullion at its market value, and its coinage to a limited amount.

    Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

  • Department to re-locate a new highway along the old Blandy Camp Road which is the northern end of the University property known as Bland, Experimental Farm.

    Board of Visitors minutes 1939

  • It was known as the Bland-Allison Act. It greatly added to the difficulties of resumption, and for that reason was vetoed by President Hayes, but became a law over his veto.

    On "The Crime of 1873" 1906

  • Demanding the repeal of the so-called Bland Act. 1

    The Parting of the Ways 1906

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